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APPARATUS FOR QOILING'WIRE.

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APPARATUS FOR UOILING WIRE. I I -No.- 517,964. Patented Apr. 10, 1894,

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HUBERT POLTE, OF REMSCHEID-HASTEN, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR COILING WI RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 517,964, dated April 10,1894.

App i ati n fi ed May 24,1893. Serial 110.475.373. (N0 model.)

To all. whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HUBERT POLTE, engiuser, a subject of the King ofPrussia, and a resident of 31 Biichelstrasse, Remscheid-Hasten, n theKingdom of Prussia and German Empire, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Apparatus for Coiling Wire, of which the followingis a specification. In order to make this invention more fullylntelligible, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, in whichsimilar letters of reference are employed to denote I similar partsthroughout the several figures.

F1gure 1 is a plan view; Fig. 2 a front view; F g. 3 a vertical crosssection of the same. F g. 4, shows in elevation and in section the dlskJ. Fig. 5, shows in front elevation and section the pulley E.

The coiling device is fixed ata suitable distance of three to four yardsfrom the pair of rollers A A. The wire B, thrown out from the pass ofthe rollers A A, is led through a guide 0, which consists of a fixedchannelwith a wide mouth, against the upper part of the coiling device,which is provided with a corresponding opening V. The channel 0 isinternally arranged in size according to the strength or diameter of thewire B proceeding from A, and must be so narrow that it is only ustsufficient to permit of a free passage of the wire. The walls of thechannel 0 must be made as high as possible to avoid the wires springingout.

The winding drum consists of a pulley E for the driving-belt and severalround rods D, of between one-fourth inch and one-half inch diameterarranged at distances of from one and one-half to two inches fromoneanother in two disks G, set in the belt-pulley E. The belt-pulley Erotates free on the shaft H, the latter being immovably set in the twostandards U. A disk J is attached to an axle L. The object of this diskis to aid in the removal of the wire B when it has been Wound. For thispurpose the disk J is attached to an axle L, which is passed through thefixed shaft H, and-is arranged so as to slide backward and forward. Theopenings 0 in the disk J, through which pass therods D serve as guides.To effect .the forward motion of the axle L, a pulley and wirearrangement is used leading to the place M where the workman, servingthe rollers A, stands, and is there provided with a lever attachment N.The backward motion of the axleL is eifected mechanically by means'ofarope or chain attached to the same and passing-over the rollers Z of thesupport R and by a weight S. Naturally, the mechanical backward motionof the axle can be eifected by means of a spring or by any othersuitable arrangement. The rotation of the drum is continuous. The

speed, however, is to be made nearly apthe rods D in order to prevent athrowing of the wire on the commencement of the opera tion and moreespecially when the end leaves the rollers. An openingV is provided atthe upper part of this casing at the side nearest to the rollers,through which the wire B passes to the drum.

The following is the procedure of winding the wire on the drum:Wire B,proceeding with great force and speed from the last set of rollers A, atonce enters the channel 0 and shooting through this is caught onto therods D of the continuously rotating winding-drum and is automaticallywound upon the same, entirely excluding any chance of disconnection. Inthe further course of the winding a small quantity of the wire B willcollect in the channel 0, the speed of therollers being somewhat greaterthan the speed of the drum. This evil is, however, soon obviated by thegradually enlarging coil of wire causing an increased circumferentialspeed. Further, the formation of loops in the wire is utterly impossiblefrom the nature of the channel, whichis made of just sufficient width toallow of the free passage of the wire; and any wire collecting inthe-same can merely overlap. When the wire B is completely wound, whichoccurs only a few seconds after the end of the wire has left the lastpair of rollers, the coil is detached from the rods D by the workmanserving the rollers A, pulling the lever IQ Patent, is--- In combinationwith a driving pulley E, disks G secured within the pulley E, rods Dpassing through openings in said disks with their front ends extendingthrough a movable disk J, means for giving horizontal movement to saiddisk J, a casing T inclosing the rods D, feed rolls and an elongatedchannel 0 between the feed rolls and the casing, substantially asdescribed.

Inwitness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

HUBERT POLTE.

Witn esses:

EVA HAUSEN. SOPHIE NAGEL.

